David R Cole
Biographic Data
| ID | 761653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David R Cole |
| GIVEN NAMES | David R |
| FAMILY NAME | Cole |
| SIGNATURE | COLE D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3966-1247 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Tipping Points: Moments to Despair, or the Spark of Creation
Attenborough’s 2021 documentary: Breaking Boundaries transitions from the scientific analysis of the planetary boundary hypothesis to the solution, which is a global awakening of planetary consciousness. David frequently speaks directly to the camera, reassuring the audience that even though tipping points are irreversible, there is still time to save us. This documentary demonstrates the essential contradiction that we find ourselves in. We have…
Educational nomadism for the Anthropocene: Notes for Future Revolution
This paper locates three movements for the future of education that will be mapped to understand how they impinge upon contemporary practice as disruptive yet potentially unifying forces; 1) The Anthropocene. The planetary boundaries hypothesis is one of the most proven scientific theories, yet contemporary education still fails to incorporate its most basic tenets into its operations - such as a move away from fossil fuel usage. This paper conte…
Patchwork Vectors for the Anthropocene: The Role of Creative Ecologies
Qualitative social inquiry into action on climate change involves understanding the intersections between contemporary social life and the technological development for environmental matters that work in this context. Thus, this article presents a solution in two parts about how to do qualitative research into the climate change action of human populations. Part 1 unravels the complex political and technological situation that we find ourselves e…
Housing in the Capitalocene: Environmental education and sustainable living
Capital and property have been combined since Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital in 1867. Indeed, capitalism and the housing market are interlinked because property is an asset whose indexed value upholds global markets. On the other side of property as real estate is the environmental damage and augmentation of climate change that housing represents - mostly in advanced, technological societies. This paper attends to capital investment in housing as th…
The praxis and imaginary of Environmental and Sustainability Education in the Capitalocene
This introduction to the special edition on the praxis and imaginary of Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) in the Capitalocene focuses on developing an argument about the underpinnings of the Capitalocene to shape our educational response to it. The statement that this article rests upon is that the Capitalocene is the driver of environmental damage on Earth today. Hence, if ESE is to have any impact it must address the Capitalocene…
The flash of a van: A cartography of a mobile educational initiative in the Claymore district of Sydney
Modern cities produce areas of poverty, despite their overall wealth. These pockets of living can exacerbate societal problems, especially because the opposite end of the societal spectrum is often close by. This paper examines an educational initiative in one such district, called Claymore, in the suburbs of outer Sydney. The project deployed a mobile youth van equipped with high-tech educational hardware and software, and encouraged local youth…
When Two Worlds Collide: Creatively Reassessing the Concept of a House Beyond the Human
This article reassesses the concept of a house from a non-human perspective. The two worlds that collide in this article are philosophical analyses that are “beyond the human” and sustainable engineering house design. By analyzing the houses of ten animal species for shelter/skin properties, life pedagogy (how to live), materials and resources, thermal dynamics, and structural elements, we speculate on the future of housing. The premise of this a…
Rebooting the end of the world: Teaching ecosophy through cinema
The global pandemic has pushed many of us to online streaming services. A particular genre in these services is the ‘end of the world’ science fiction film, in and through which the speculated results of processes such as climate change are depicted. CGI technology is frequently deployed to create images of the end of the world, which is a backdrop to the narrative of, ‘saving ourselves amidst the ruins’. This philosophy of education essay will c…
Anti-Oedipus in the Anthropocene: Education and the deterritorializing machine
The Deleuze/Guattari text Anti-Oedipus burst onto the intellectual scene in 1972 as a radical new means to reconceptualise capitalism and its effects. At the heart of Anti-Oedipus and its analysis of capitalism is the concept of deterritorialization, and how it evacuates identities, culture, values, and, indeed, coherent thought itself, and it makes them susceptible to the equations and dynamics of capital flows. Anti-Oedipus presents the mechani…
The affect(s) of literacy learning in the mud
This paper draws on the social ecology of Félix Guattari, to suggest that young children learn in complex social and natural situations, in this case ‘getting muddy’. The notion of social ecology will be revived in this paper, to ensure that the human social world is embedded in and part of the natural world, with all its complexities, relations and repetitions (re: muddiness). Children learn from their mistakes, from social interaction, due to t…
Caught in the fish traps: An immanent analysis between programming the future (PtF) and Aboriginal youth
This article concerns a project funded by the Save the Children organization to help indigenous youth in regional areas of NSW pick up
A Pedagogy of the Parasite
Caught between the air and earth: A schizoanalytic critique of the role of the education in the development of a new airport
This philosophy of education paper describes a schizophrenic situation. A new airport is being planned in the locale of a university which is a Centre of Excellence of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and the university is a major partner. The airport involves an investment in jobs, resources, and will encourage further economic development. The planners have named the inter-connected developments around the airport as the ‘Aerotropol…
Analysing the Matter Flows in Schools Using Deleuze’s Method
Principles of Transversality in Globalization and Education
Afterword: Zhibo, Existential Territory, Inter-Media-Mundia
Nowhere ǁ Erewhon
What is nowhere? Is it a non-place that has been created by the disappearance of distinct identities in the spread of standardised, global capitalism? Or has it come about as a result of colonialisation and the separation of indigenous cultures from their lands, and their replacement with vacuous, colonised, globalised non-places? This article suggests that ‘nowhere’, which was satirically entitled, ‘Erewhon’ by Samuel Butler due to the inverted …
Conceptual ecologies for educational research through Deleuze, Guattari and Whitehead
This article will explore the increasing interest in the application of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari and Alfred North Whitehead to educational research, for example, as a conceptual underpinning for inquiry in the new materialisms, and/or educational posthumanism. The exploration of this paper is complicated by the fact that Deleuze and Guattari changed their philosophical position in their dual publications, with, for example…
Accelerationism: A timely provocation for the critical sociology of education
Accelerationism is a theoretical movement that seeks to mobilise reason and technological development as a strategy for moving beyond capitalism. The first wave of accelerationism took the effects of capitalism at their most pernicious and suggested that they have not gone far enough. More recent work has complicated this project and explored political, epistemic and aesthetic accelerations. The central push to accelerate, and therefore to manife…
Educational Philosophy and ‘New French Thought’
One could argue that the greatest challenge for the philosophy of education today is to stake its claim amidst the increasing prominence and competitive nature of evidence-based and profit-motivate
Educational non-philosophy
The final lines of Deleuze and Guattari’s What is Philosophy? call for a non-philosophy to balance and act as a counterweight to the task of philosophy that had been described by them in terms of concept creation. In a footnote, Deleuze and Guattari mention François Laruelle’s project of non-philosophy, but dispute its efficacy in terms of the designated relationship between non-philosophy and science, as had been realised by Laruelle at the time…
Just War: Authority, Tradition, and Practice
President Barack Obama's 2009 Nobel Peace Prize address reminded us that nation-state leaders still rely on the just war tradition as a way to guide the use of state-sponsored force in the world. The editors of this collection want to shed new light on this venerable moral tradition, which shapes international relations, legal codes, and political speeches. One of the most intriguing goals of the volume is how it challenges what the post-Westphal…
Strange Assemblage
This paper contends that the power of Deleuze & Guattari’s (1988) notion of assemblage as theorised in 1000 Plateaus can be normalised and reductive with reference to its application to any social-cultural context where an open system of dynamic and fluid elements are located. Rather than determining the assemblage in this way, this paper argues for an alternative conception of ‘strange assemblage’ that must be deliberately and consciously create…
Just Wars, Holy Wars, & Jihads: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Encounters and Exchanges
Sohail Hashmi has edited a fine collection of essays that attempt to explore the interaction between Christian (mainly) and Jewish just war thinking and Muslim jihad thinking from the rise of Islam in the seventh century to the present day. Each essay aims to help the reader answer two questions. First, what historical evidence exists that Christian, Jewish, and Muslim writers of just, holy, and jihad conflicts respectively knew of each other's t…
The Power In/Of Language
The Failure of Obsidian Hydration Dating: Sources, Implications, and New Directions
The Actions of Affect in Deleuze: Others using language and the language that we make
The actions of affect are prominent in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and can be broken down for the purposes of education into two roles. The first alludes to the history of philosophy and the ways in which affect has been used by Spinoza (Deleuze, 1992) Nietzsche (Deleuze, 1983) or Bergson (Deleuze, 1991). In this role, Deleuze reinvigorates and challenges definitions of affect that would place them into systems of understanding that could ta…
Obsidian Diffusion Dating by Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry: A Test using Results from Mound 65, Chalco, Mexico
Matter in Motion: The educational materialism of Gilles Deleuze
This paper critically examines the materialism that Gilles Deleuze espouses in his oeuvre to the benefit of educational theory. In Difference and Repetition, he presented transcendental empiricism by underwriting Kant with realism (Deleuze, 1994). Later, in Capitalism & Schizophrenia I & II that were co‐written with Félix Guattari (1984, 1988) and that they named Anti‐Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze's philosophical approach is realigned …
Accelerationism: A timely provocation for the critical sociology of education
Accelerationism is a theoretical movement that seeks to mobilise reason and technological development as a strategy for moving beyond capitalism. The first wave of accelerationism took the effects of capitalism at their most pernicious and suggested that they have not gone far enough. More recent work has complicated this project and explored political, epistemic and aesthetic accelerations. The central push to accelerate, and therefore to manife…
Educational Philosophy and ‘New French Thought’
One could argue that the greatest challenge for the philosophy of education today is to stake its claim amidst the increasing prominence and competitive nature of evidence-based and profit-motivate
Learning-Practice: The Ghosts in the Education Machine
The ghosts of this paper refer to the ways in which diverse practices and learning styles coincide in particular frames. This article will combine the philosophy of mind with educational poststructuralism to generate an informed approach to understand learning-practice. This combinational analysis rests on certain principles and focus points such as: 1) Language plays a crucial role in the orchestration of practice; 2) Learning cannot be separate…
The affect(s) of literacy learning in the mud
This paper draws on the social ecology of Félix Guattari, to suggest that young children learn in complex social and natural situations, in this case ‘getting muddy’. The notion of social ecology will be revived in this paper, to ensure that the human social world is embedded in and part of the natural world, with all its complexities, relations and repetitions (re: muddiness). Children learn from their mistakes, from social interaction, due to t…
Caught between the air and earth: A schizoanalytic critique of the role of the education in the development of a new airport
This philosophy of education paper describes a schizophrenic situation. A new airport is being planned in the locale of a university which is a Centre of Excellence of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and the university is a major partner. The airport involves an investment in jobs, resources, and will encourage further economic development. The planners have named the inter-connected developments around the airport as the ‘Aerotropol…
Conceptual ecologies for educational research through Deleuze, Guattari and Whitehead
This article will explore the increasing interest in the application of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari and Alfred North Whitehead to educational research, for example, as a conceptual underpinning for inquiry in the new materialisms, and/or educational posthumanism. The exploration of this paper is complicated by the fact that Deleuze and Guattari changed their philosophical position in their dual publications, with, for example…
Educational non-philosophy
The final lines of Deleuze and Guattari’s What is Philosophy? call for a non-philosophy to balance and act as a counterweight to the task of philosophy that had been described by them in terms of concept creation. In a footnote, Deleuze and Guattari mention François Laruelle’s project of non-philosophy, but dispute its efficacy in terms of the designated relationship between non-philosophy and science, as had been realised by Laruelle at the time…
Latino families becoming-literate in Australia: Deleuze, literacy and the politics of immigration
This article examines qualitative data from a two family case study in New South Wales. Both families are from South America and have recently moved to Australia. This study demonstrates that an understanding of the ways that the families are becoming literate in Australia necessitates moving beyond linguistic analyses of the changes that are occurring. The changes that are addressed constitute a politics of immigration, whereby the internal hope…
Isothermal Time‐Series Determination of the Rate of Diffusion of Water in Pachuca Obsidian
Friedman and Smith's (1960) article introducing an exciting, potentially precise and inexpensive method of dating obsidian artefacts has thus far failed to reach its potential. Numerous efforts to refine, improve and even redevelop the method since that time have similarly failed to achieve the original promise. Only within the last eight years have significant improvements been made, due to both improved analytical techniques and a better unders…
Anti-Oedipus in the Anthropocene: Education and the deterritorializing machine
The Deleuze/Guattari text Anti-Oedipus burst onto the intellectual scene in 1972 as a radical new means to reconceptualise capitalism and its effects. At the heart of Anti-Oedipus and its analysis of capitalism is the concept of deterritorialization, and how it evacuates identities, culture, values, and, indeed, coherent thought itself, and it makes them susceptible to the equations and dynamics of capital flows. Anti-Oedipus presents the mechani…
Nowhere ǁ Erewhon
What is nowhere? Is it a non-place that has been created by the disappearance of distinct identities in the spread of standardised, global capitalism? Or has it come about as a result of colonialisation and the separation of indigenous cultures from their lands, and their replacement with vacuous, colonised, globalised non-places? This article suggests that ‘nowhere’, which was satirically entitled, ‘Erewhon’ by Samuel Butler due to the inverted …
Education and the politics of becoming
1. Introduction: Education and the politics of becoming David R. Cole and Diana Masny 2. Travelling and sticky affects: Exploring teens and sexualized cyberbullying through a Butlerian-Deleuzian-Guattarian lens Jette Kofoed and Jessica Ringrose 3. Becoming-teacher: Encounters with the Other in teacher education Stephen Marble 4. Latino families becoming-literate in Australia: Deleuze, literacy and the politics of immigration David R. Cole 5. Livi…
The Power of Emotional Factors in English Teaching
One of the most prevalent ways in which power works in education is by separating out and segmenting knowledge areas so that their corresponding synergies and connective augmentations are nullified. This article takes secondary English teaching as an example of these complex social processes, and presents research that brings disparate fields of investigation together. On the one hand, teachers may be polarised and challenged by curriculum change…
Education and the Politics of Cyberpunk
The importance in contemporary education of critical theory as a pedagogic basis for the analysis of textual and cultural resources creates a space for educationalists to implement meaningful curri
Abstract Spaces: A Workshop Approach
I am going to describe a workshop technique that makes the abstractions of conceptual thought available as physical experiences, and in so doing, makes abstraction itself—usually thought of as a danger to theatre work—available to theatre, both as a subject matter and as an untapped source of performance energies. There is a tendency, in most branches of contemporary thought, to use metaphors of space for all sorts of concepts and relationships t…
Three generations of family medicine: A comparison of social identities
The Liberal Future in America: Essays in Renewal. Philip Abbott , Michael B. Levy
Against Literalism
Acting as Reading: The Place of the Reading Process in the Actor's Work
Paleosols as indicators of paleoclimatic conditions in the quaternary deposits of New Mexico
The Failure of Obsidian Hydration Dating: Sources, Implications, and New Directions
Obsidian Diffusion Dating by Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry: A Test using Results from Mound 65, Chalco, Mexico
Isothermal Time‐Series Determination of the Rate of Diffusion of Water in Pachuca Obsidian
Friedman and Smith's (1960) article introducing an exciting, potentially precise and inexpensive method of dating obsidian artefacts has thus far failed to reach its potential. Numerous efforts to refine, improve and even redevelop the method since that time have similarly failed to achieve the original promise. Only within the last eight years have significant improvements been made, due to both improved analytical techniques and a better unders…
Education and the Politics of Cyberpunk
The importance in contemporary education of critical theory as a pedagogic basis for the analysis of textual and cultural resources creates a space for educationalists to implement meaningful curri
That They May All Be One: The Call to Unity Today
The Reproduction of Philosophical Bodies in Education with Language
This paper articulates a feminist poststructural philosophy of education by combining the work of Luce Irigaray and Michel Foucault. This acts as an underpinning for a philosophy of desire ( McWilliam, 1999 ) in education, or as a minor philosophy of education where multiple movements of bodies are enacted through theoretical methodologies and research. These methods include qualitative analysis and critical discourse analysis; where the conjunct…
The Power of Emotional Factors in English Teaching
One of the most prevalent ways in which power works in education is by separating out and segmenting knowledge areas so that their corresponding synergies and connective augmentations are nullified. This article takes secondary English teaching as an example of these complex social processes, and presents research that brings disparate fields of investigation together. On the one hand, teachers may be polarised and challenged by curriculum change…
The Actions of Affect in Deleuze: Others using language and the language that we make
The actions of affect are prominent in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and can be broken down for the purposes of education into two roles. The first alludes to the history of philosophy and the ways in which affect has been used by Spinoza (Deleuze, 1992) Nietzsche (Deleuze, 1983) or Bergson (Deleuze, 1991). In this role, Deleuze reinvigorates and challenges definitions of affect that would place them into systems of understanding that could ta…
Learning-Practice: The Ghosts in the Education Machine
The ghosts of this paper refer to the ways in which diverse practices and learning styles coincide in particular frames. This article will combine the philosophy of mind with educational poststructuralism to generate an informed approach to understand learning-practice. This combinational analysis rests on certain principles and focus points such as: 1) Language plays a crucial role in the orchestration of practice; 2) Learning cannot be separate…
Educational Life-Forms: Deleuzian Teaching and Learning Practice
Matter in Motion: The educational materialism of Gilles Deleuze
This paper critically examines the materialism that Gilles Deleuze espouses in his oeuvre to the benefit of educational theory. In Difference and Repetition, he presented transcendental empiricism by underwriting Kant with realism (Deleuze, 1994). Later, in Capitalism & Schizophrenia I & II that were co‐written with Félix Guattari (1984, 1988) and that they named Anti‐Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze's philosophical approach is realigned …
The Power In/Of Language
Introduction: The future of educational materialism
Introduction: The future of educational materialism." Educational Philosophy and Theory, 44(sup1), pp. 1–2
Education and the politics of becoming
1. Introduction: Education and the politics of becoming David R. Cole and Diana Masny 2. Travelling and sticky affects: Exploring teens and sexualized cyberbullying through a Butlerian-Deleuzian-Guattarian lens Jette Kofoed and Jessica Ringrose 3. Becoming-teacher: Encounters with the Other in teacher education Stephen Marble 4. Latino families becoming-literate in Australia: Deleuze, literacy and the politics of immigration David R. Cole 5. Livi…
Latino families becoming-literate in Australia: Deleuze, literacy and the politics of immigration
This article examines qualitative data from a two family case study in New South Wales. Both families are from South America and have recently moved to Australia. This study demonstrates that an understanding of the ways that the families are becoming literate in Australia necessitates moving beyond linguistic analyses of the changes that are occurring. The changes that are addressed constitute a politics of immigration, whereby the internal hope…
Strange Assemblage
This paper contends that the power of Deleuze & Guattari’s (1988) notion of assemblage as theorised in 1000 Plateaus can be normalised and reductive with reference to its application to any social-cultural context where an open system of dynamic and fluid elements are located. Rather than determining the assemblage in this way, this paper argues for an alternative conception of ‘strange assemblage’ that must be deliberately and consciously create…
Just Wars, Holy Wars, & Jihads: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Encounters and Exchanges
Sohail Hashmi has edited a fine collection of essays that attempt to explore the interaction between Christian (mainly) and Jewish just war thinking and Muslim jihad thinking from the rise of Islam in the seventh century to the present day. Each essay aims to help the reader answer two questions. First, what historical evidence exists that Christian, Jewish, and Muslim writers of just, holy, and jihad conflicts respectively knew of each other's t…
Educational Philosophy and ‘New French Thought’
One could argue that the greatest challenge for the philosophy of education today is to stake its claim amidst the increasing prominence and competitive nature of evidence-based and profit-motivate
Educational non-philosophy
The final lines of Deleuze and Guattari’s What is Philosophy? call for a non-philosophy to balance and act as a counterweight to the task of philosophy that had been described by them in terms of concept creation. In a footnote, Deleuze and Guattari mention François Laruelle’s project of non-philosophy, but dispute its efficacy in terms of the designated relationship between non-philosophy and science, as had been realised by Laruelle at the time…
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